Four Parts of a Latin Edition of the Bible – Paris, 1529-1532 – Pocket Size Edition

Four Parts of a Latin Edition of the Bible – Paris, 1529-1532 – Pocket Size Edition

Four parts of a pocket size edition of the Bible, in Latin. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1529-1532. Three volumes.

In 1524-1526, the Parisian printer Simon de Colines published a sexto-decimo edition of the Bible in seven or eight parts. All parts were reprinted over the next fifteen years. This lot comprises four of the reprints:
• Part I (printing completed in December 1532): The Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges and Ruth.
[8], 439 ff.
• Part II (printing completed in May 1529) – Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, Tobias, Judith, Esther, Job. Text within red-ruled frame.
[5], 587 ff.
• Part V (1513) – "Libri Prophetarum": Isaiah, Jeremiah, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Zechariah and Malachi. Bound with Part VI – 1 and 2 Maccabees.
436 ff.; 100 ff.
Woodcut initials.

Approx. 10.5-11.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Large dark stains to title pages. Creases and minor wear. Worming to most leaves of Part I and to some leaves in other volumes, with minor damage to text. Large, blue inked-stamps on several pages. Minor repair to title page of Part V. Marking to f. 486 of Part II. New, matching leather bindings, with remnants of the original, gilt-decorated leather bindings. Edges painted black.

See: Darlow & Moule, Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Vol. II, note following 6105.